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Exchange is one of the most interesting products I work with. It's something that I'm continunally interested in. Over at the Exchange Team Blog , there's this insightful and interesting story behind the Squeaky Lobster. Typically my little blog is either a) finite technical crap that I'll need to know years from now, but can't possibly remember, or b) IT news of interest to yours truly. This is kinda the latter, and then so much more. Drop everything and go read this .

Sometimes it's the little things that trick you. Discovered today that if you want to use the Previous Versions tab from within Windows Server 2003, you have to browse to the share via the UNC path (or, presumably, map a drive), and then the Previous Version tab appears. (E.g. \\localhost\sharename\etc.) I tried this on a file server, just navigating to C:\shares\whatever and was stumped why it wasn't there. As Carson would say, wild shtuff

Finally got a P2V completed successfully on an NT4 PDC. The conversion went perfectly except for the NIC--it wouldn't work. Found this forum over in VMWa're support area, and sure enough, dumping the vlance and using the VMXNET and the driver for same including on the (virtual) tools CD did the trick. Finally! All I had to do was add this line to the VM config file: Ethernet0.virtualDev = "vmxnet" Link

This guy over at That Guy's Software made this great, free (as in beer) editor for KiXtart , my current tool for NT domain logon scripting. I gotta send this guy a yuppie food stamp (man, I hate modern yuppie slang). More here .

Gripping artical over at Redmond Magazine about real-world disaster-recovery scenarios from IT pros that were hit by Katrina . Link

Found this great VB script over at WindowsITPro by John Savill while looking for a way to audit (and disable) accounts used for FTP access on our web server (which haven't been used in n days). If you leave the " Set oDomain = " alone and don't put in a DC, and put in the name of the local server (not the DC in " sEnterDCs = " ", it will poll the local SAM database, instead of the default behaviour of going out to a DC. ' List last logon times ' 2001-03-27 John Savill, Jakob Hussfelt http://www.ntfaq.com On Error Resume Next sEnterDCs = "SAVILLTECH,SAVILLNT02" sObjects = Split(sEnterDCs, ",") Set oDomain = GetObject("WinNT://" & sObjects(0)) oDomain.Filter = Array("User") WScript.Echo "Showing last login times of accounts from: " & oDomain.Name & vbNewLine For Each oDomainItem In oDomain sUsrLogin = oDomainItem.LastLogin If UBound(sObjects) >= 1 Then For ii = 1 To UBo...

Cool article at Computer World , How I used Linux network tools to solve real problems... By combining the Linux distribution Fedora Core with the open-source packages libpcap , tcpdump , Multi Router Traffic Grapher ( iptraf and MRTG ), I demonstrated how useful statistics on network usage and trends can be obtained. Link